Isaac hanna



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC HANNA, or QHIOAGOQILLIN'QIS, essienon or ONE-HALF TO EMMA e. STONE, or SAME PLACE.

WINDOWLSCRQEEN-FRAME HQLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,849, dated April 11, 1899.

Application filed November 21, 1898. Serial No. 697,048. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC HANNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in W'indow-Screen-Frame Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved means for holding the screen-frame in position on the outer portion of the window-casing; and it consists in certain peculiarities of the construction and novel arrangement of the devices, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

The objects of my inventionare, first, to provide means for holding the screen-frame in position which shall be simple and inexpensive in construction, strong, durable, effective, and satisfactory in operation, and, second, to provide a screen-holding device by means of which the screen may be easily placed in position or readily removed from the interior of the room.

Another object of my invention is to so arrange and locate some of the guides or holders for the screen-frame as to enable it to be raised and left in substantially a horizontal position at about the middle of the window-- casing, so that the lower portion of the window may be open.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings,

view of one of the lower guides or holders; and Fig. 5 is a front perspective view of a portion of the window-casing, showing my guides or holders andthe manner of inserting or removingthe screen-frame.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the different views of the drawings.

A represents a window-casing of the ordi nary or any preferred construction, in which are located and operate the upper and lower sashes B and B, respectively. Secured to each of the blind-stops c and 011 their adjacent surfaces just. below the lower rail 1) of the upper sash when in its normal position and at a proper point outwardly therefrom is a guide or holder 0, which is preferably made of metal and. angular in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. That portion of each of the guides G which rests against the blind-stops c is provided with openings 0' for the reception of screws or nails to be used for fastening the guides in position, and when so fastened the flanges c of said guides or holders will extend at right angles from the portion having the holes 0 and inwardlyfrom the blind-stops,as is clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Secured to each of the blind-stops and on their adjacent surfaces, near their lower ends or near the sill D of the window-casing, is a guide or holder E, which is preferably made of metal and has its upper portion bent to form an angle in cross-section and its lower portion formed by means of the flanges e and 8 into a channel to receive the lower portion of the screen-frame F, whose upper portion is held and guided by means of the angle guides or holders 0 and the lower rail 1) of the upper sash. The guides or ho1ders E are provided with openings 6 for screws or nails in their portions which lie against the blind-stops c and when in position thereon will have their flanges e and e extending at right angles therefrom and inwardly to engage the sides of the screen-frame.

It will be observed by reference to Fig. 4 of the drawings that the flanges e of the guides or holders E are much shorter than the flanges 8 thereof, which construction will allow the screen-frame F to be drawn inwardly from the bottom by raising it a slight distance only,

yet when in position between the flanges e and c it will be firmly held thereby at its lower part and securely retained atits upper part by means of the guides G and the lower rail of the upper sash.

When it is desired to remove the screen for the purpose of cleaning the window-panes or for any other purpose, it may be slid upward until the lower part of the; screen-frame is free from the flanges e of the holders or guides E, when by drawing the frame inwardly after the lower sash shall have been raised to a sufficient height the screen may be entirely removed,- or, if it is desired, it can be left in substantially a horizontal position, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings, by sliding it between the upper ends of the guides C and the lower rail 17 of the upper sash until the outer portion of the screen-frame will over= balance the inner portion, in which position it may be left until it is desired to again replace it, which may be done by lowering the inner portion and placing said portion between the flanges e and e of the lower holders.

WVhile I have shown the guides or holders secured to the blind stops 0, yet I do not desire to be limited to such an arrangement or location of said holders, as I may secure them to any suitable portion of the window-casing without departing from the spirit of my invention.

cured to the lower portion of each of the walls of the casing, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a window-casing having blind-stops, of an angular guide-piece secured to each of the blind-stops on their adjacent surfaces slightly below the lower rail of the upper sash, and a guide or holder comprising an angular portion and a channel por v tion secured to the lowerpor'tion of the blindstops and on their adjacent surfaces, substantially as described.

ISAAC HANNA,

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. TILLMAN, E. A DUGGAN, 

